SHE went to hell and back with her jailbird ex and feared she’d lost her chance to find true love. But with hindsight, Towie star Ferne McCann finally realises her painful wait to find The One was worth it. Within five months of her first date with her new model boyfriend Jack Padgett, Ferne has moved him into her Essex […]
SHE went to hell and back with her jailbird ex and feared she’d lost her chance to find true love.
But with hindsight, Towie star Ferne McCann finally realises her painful wait to find The One was worth it.
Within five months of her first date with her new model boyfriend Jack Padgett, Ferne has moved him into her Essex mansion.
And in an exclusive interview with The Sun, 30-year-old Ferne says he’s changed her life and is positive she’ll marry him.
She even admits saying “I love you” first after being unable to stop it exploding out of her mouth.
“I’ve made the mistake before of telling my friends that I’ve found the one and I’m going to get married,” said Ferne, as she launches her Get Your Groove Back fitness plan.
“I’ve reined it back and calmed it down, but I feel like he really is the one.
“I’m in that love bubble and I don’t think that’s going to change.
“He’s honestly changed my life and that’s it now. I’m so grateful.”
Ferne feared she had missed her chance at lasting love after splitting with her daughter Sunday’s father Arthur Collins while pregnant.
He is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for GBH and ABH after a horrific acid attack in a London nightclub, which left 14 people injured.
The 2017 tragedy changed Ferne and her unborn daughter’s lives forever.
But little did she know at that time she’d already met the love of her life in Jack – she just hadn’t realised it.
The couple first met five years ago partying in Marbella – the regular holiday hotspot of Towie stars.
They kept in touch as friends before things turned romantic for them in October 2020.
“It’s a really healthy honest relationship,” said Ferne.
“It’s an adult relationship and I’m very happy.
“He’s so nice, calm and balanced, and fun. I love him.
“I did actually say ‘I love you first’. I knew he loved me but he wasn’t going to be the one to say it.
“I told him once we were in an embrace because I didn’t want to look in his eyes.
“I kept thinking, ‘when is he going to say it?’ I was getting annoyed because I couldn’t hold it in, so I just thought I’d go for it.
“Now I say to him ‘I love you’ and he’s like, ‘Ferne you said it 15 minutes ago’.
“I say I wish there were more words than ‘I love you’ so I could say something else to him because I sound like a broken record.”
Looking back, Ferne says she knows now her previous relationships were doomed because she wasn’t being her “real” self.
FITNESS fanatic Ferne has launched a new 'Get Your Groove Back’ plan.
It’s aimed at women who are pre/post natal, wanting to gain body confidence, empower themselves and learn more around sexual health/ wellness.
Ferne says: “When I was going on dates I was kind of altering myself because when you want a second date you think ‘well, I won’t show that side of me’, or you behave in a certain way you know they’d like.
“But when you’re yourself, that’s when you attract the ones who will fall in love with you.
“That’s what happened to me. I surrendered and thought I’m going to be myself.
“When you are unapologetically you, that’s so attractive.”
Quizzed on whether she’ll one day give her daughter Sunday a sibling with hunky Jack, Ferne added: “It’s too soon for all that, and I don’t want to scare him off – but I have discussed baby names with him.
“But we’re not planning for a baby yet. I just want to enjoy life with him first for a few more years to have fun with him.”
